You know I was working on this Christian Publishing thing and I started to put some ideas out to some people earlier this week. I started to kick the tires and check under the hood to see if there was some life in it. After sending out some feelers and getting NO responses, I knew that I was supposed to go about this the old fashioned way.

One of the things that I do know from the Christian circle is that we, us, them, are some of the pickiest people on the planet.

Questions I am sure come up regarding me and my comic are, “…how do we know he is saved?” or “…what is his mission statement?” or “what church does he belong to?” Oh, and my all time favorite, “….what denomination or religion is he?”

I do have to laugh because when I first started this thing, there was these groups out back in the day ( and they are still kicking it) called Switchfoot and the Cross Movement.

Man, I used to tell people about the PK Band that is out (PK preachers kids) and they do not sound like they are singing this little light of mine. I used to also tell people about these kids that are rapping some serious old school beats and they are laying down some lyrics that can compare with the Hip Hop of the radio.

People would look at me and say the same thing, “…how do we know he is saved?” or “…what is his mission statement?” or “what church does he belong to?” Oh, and my all time favorite, “….what denomination or religion is he?”

But, as they were killing the passion, there were a lot of kids that just went unreached. They became lost due to people would not receive something that was needed and timely for the Christian faith.

I know that when I started this thing back in 1996 people looked at my characters and took a long gasp. I used to tell them that there are kids who need to know that the troubles that the go through are real and that the art that I put together just represented their struggles.

I still got the cold shoulder though. But! I was determined to get this thing moving and I was a hard charger with it. I went to bookstores with my comics and characters, contacted clothing shops with my t-shirts, called all the “Bricks” (large Christian retail shops) to try and find space on the shelves, and I tried to talk to buyers and on and on until I got zilch.

I think the funniest thing I ever heard one of the Bricks tell me when he had my t-shirt and comic in his hand was, “…we do not have any name for the category that you are presenting. We would not know where to place it in our stores.” Then the thing that put the icing on the cake was, “…when we are dealing with young people products we sort of wait to see what the secular markets are taking and then we work from that angle.” Man, are you fricking kidding me?

My mouth hit the floor and went through to the basement. So, not only did they not know where to place my stuff, but also they waited for the secular world to lead and they followed. I kindly said to him, “…I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?” His response was classic, “…that is just they way this business is?”

Wow!

It was then that I knew that I had to get away from the “Christian” market and get to the folks who needed it. It was then that I learned that maybe if I take my product to the streets – then I could have a chance at making something that has some real world substance, cool art, cutting edge storyline, amazing t-shirts and outstanding multi-media to possibly allow the message to stand on its own.

Wow! But how do you do something that you have no clue how to do?

Just gotta have Faith.

The Christian Graphic Novel Publishing project is called the Horseless Carriage. The name is goofy, but it is taken from a very famous man named Henry Ford.

If you remember, Ford made the Model A and T cars and then mass-produced us into the age of horsepower. But, it was his first was dubiously called the Horseless Carriage. LINK – http://wp.me/p3oxx6-2

Now, some of you are like – “Dude! What?” Well, Ford followed his dream and I can only imagine he had significant Faith to dream a dream that no one else but he could dream.

He had no huge engineering background, nothing, just a dream and a thought of making a Horseless Carriage. A dream that lead to one of the greatest success stories in the planet and it allowed him to become the master of an industry that was not even an industry.

Well, that is what I am going for. To create something that is needed and even though I am not sure, I just gotta go forward so others can get their visions to reality and have some faith. Let the journey begin.

Well, the next part of this saga is about to roll out. Currently, we are working with a very cool printer in the Colorado Springs area to give us a finished look that we are looking for our new shirts. Decided to go slow and do it right so we can get the look that is needed.

Excited about the next level of shirts, but more excited about taking the steps to finally get there and start this up again.

I wanted something really cool when I was making my comic and so I dreamed up all the things that I liked and then put together all the things that were sort of possible and in the scope of my comic. What I came up with was this thing that bridged the gap between my Sentinel character and a heavy-duty, kick butt, kind of thing. So, I thought and thought and being a Robotech fan (man I love that stuff) I thought of a mech vehicle that I loved (http://www.kent.net/robotech/mecha/rdf/macii.shtml) and a vehicle that I saw in the first Aliens movie. So, I got this thing that called the WarHammer and it took a while but it worked out pretty good. Now, I met a dude online named Hank Jiang who helped me out. Well, back then Hank was working for Rockstar Games, yes the same Rockstar that makes Grand Theft Auto, and he and I talked online and he made the Sentinel and the WarHammer Characters for me…and I have been pleased every day I looked at it.

So, the way that I put it all together was by giving them (Sentinels) a history and a background, home planet and a purpose in the comic. What it came out to was the Sentinels were in ancient race created in the beginning to serve the Lord throughout the galaxy. But, they lived in a distant world and the reason for that was to let others know that the Christ speaks to not just us…but them out there as well.

Now they travel with ships when they want, but they usually travel through Voids (things that connect the spiritual and natural worlds together) and travel back and forth between worlds and areas at the speed of thought.

What that makes is for a pretty cool series of events that the comic can now jump in and out of. But, the mech (almost forgot) can move on its own and work on its own, but it is a symbiotic parasite kind of bio organism. It has one owner, and can latch on to the host and become and extension of the host or itself…either way it is freaky.

This is Sentinel's Symbiotic Host transport

Oh, I am working on getting t-shirts of this and other characters from a cool dude out of Florida, Sad Monkey – Daniel Davidson (cool, real cool dude).

2004 SN closed its doors due to personal reasons – but now, it is working its way back.

SN is working on a couple of new logos to represent the new company. We are going to be a little lighter and a little more aggressive with our content for our products.

What SN does is makes Christian entertainment products for the mature Christian. We are not a kid producer of products and we do not make cute products the 6-9 year olds. We make mature comics that deal with: heaven, hell, death, sin, sex, lust, pain, murder and things that happen in real life.

Some of the graphics on the Blog will have a lot of art that has not been seen in about 10 years.